Strykervet
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That's funny! It reminds me of the kid using the .50BMG, probably a Raufoss, as a hammer to drive out a cotter pin. I've seen M4's with barrels melted cartoon style and brand new carriers snap in half because POG units cleaned them with hot water and no oil.You don't know much about GI's do you?
They can break a brand new ball bearing.
And then lose the steel balls playing marbles with them.
There is nothing at all wrong with the DI M-16/M4 if you take case of it like you should be taking care of any weapon.
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For any vet it will almost always be what they carried. So look back in history and see what was commonly issued and whoever carried that will likely pick it. For me, it is the SOPMOD M4 kit.
That line in "Jarhead" really summed it up for me. He said he could close his eyes and feel that rifle. When you get that way, you just don't change because something new came out. That marine "This is My Rifle" poem, it kind of sums it up too.
Notice you won't find many AK responses on here. It is reliable, it qualifies, but it isn't a rifle that many vets depended on. Neither is the FAL, but ask a Falklands vet and that is what you'll get.
BTW, I asked this exact question to some Brit scouts with whom we nearly ruined Vancouver BC on leave (but got put in for the Soldiers Medals for saving this lady --another story) and they hated that L86 --I was actually surprised to hear them say that. They mentioned something about HK and a contract to improve them though, but this was ten years ago.